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Comment on Ask HN: Can I exclude Trump supporters in my open source license?

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You can just not distribute your software. Keep it for yourself.

Last year, a german developer did that, because he disagreed with the policies of the European Union.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/paper-retracted-after...

That's were you see the notion of country is a great invention: you can gather all the non racists in a country, and all the racists in other countries (classified by races), and then everybody is happy. But of course, don't distribute your products cross borders: establish tariffs and rules for importation and exportation.

Oh wow, that's a great link. So it seems this person does continue to have a restriction on the use of his software in certain countries as a visit to his website shows.

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